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April 11, 2007
Starting Day 2 Of Jury Duty
Just hanging with my boys (and gals), waiting for the call.
Posted by Mr. Bingley at April 11, 2007 07:03 AM
Comments
"I see dead people..."
Posted by: Ken S, Fifth String on the Banjo of Life at April 11, 2007 08:35 AM
Typical Bingley ~ only one in a suit jacket among working stiffs, bitchin' about bologna sammiches again.
Posted by: tree hugging sister at April 11, 2007 10:32 AM
I thought Bingley was the one on the right that looks like Abe Vigoda.
Posted by: Ken S, Fifth String on the Banjo of Life at April 11, 2007 10:59 AM
What did you say to tick off Jack Klugman?
Posted by: Nightfly at April 11, 2007 11:50 AM
I'm thinking that Bingley just regaled them with one of his cooking adventures. By the looks, it was the turducken one.
Posted by: Dave E. at April 11, 2007 12:54 PM
...and they just came through the door with it.
Posted by: tree hugging sister at April 11, 2007 01:07 PM
...steaming on a platter.
Posted by: tree hugging sister at April 11, 2007 01:07 PM
And no wine to kill the aftertaste.
Posted by: The_Real_JeffS at April 11, 2007 02:29 PM
Well the bastards went ahead and settled before the trial, so we got excused (and thanked for our Don't Question My Patriotism™ service to Truth, Justice and The American Way).
All of which was a fiendish commie plot to deny me the chance to give someone the chair.
dang it.
Posted by: Mr. Bingley at April 11, 2007 03:55 PM
Thats a picture that James Lileks could get a half a dozen Bleats.
Posted by: jon spencer at April 11, 2007 05:15 PM
Did you have to trek out to Trenton or just over to the county seat?
Posted by: Prussian Tiger at April 11, 2007 07:16 PM
I just had to go to Freehold. And I have to say I was very pleasantly suprised by how nice and considerate the ladies who ran/coordinated the Jury Pool were; quite top-notch. It's a shame you can't encounter more civil servants like them.
Posted by: Mr. Bingley at April 11, 2007 09:39 PM
jon, you're right about that!
Posted by: Mr. Bingley at April 11, 2007 09:40 PM
And he wouldn't pick on my Turducken, either.
Posted by: Mr. Bingley at April 11, 2007 09:41 PM
Our local jury people are pretty good too. They've gone to a system where the first pass through is a questionnaire for the first round of voir dire. That way, fewer people have to sit through the real time stuff.
Back in 1995, I was in a jury pool in Oakland. There was some major delay in getting stuff moving and a lady got on the PA system to apologize for it. She added "But just be glad you're not in LA County."
The OJ Simpson pool was being chosen the same week.
Posted by: Ken S, Fifth String on the Banjo of Life at April 11, 2007 09:48 PM
I'm thinking OJ is probably glad you weren't in that pool too.
Posted by: Mr. Bingley at April 11, 2007 10:22 PM
Oh, you got THAT right.
Posted by: Ken S, Fifth String on the Banjo of Life at April 11, 2007 11:42 PM
Your photo essays on cooking are a hit, Bingley. So don't get me wrong. I can even handle the whole "stick the beer can up the dead chicken's ass" thing.
The very idea of turducken however, is...disturbing.
Posted by: Dave E. at April 12, 2007 11:28 AM
I'll grant you the disturbing; I wonder who actually thought of it.
They probably have to register in the community where they live...
Posted by: Mr. Bingley at April 12, 2007 11:33 AM
I hate juries. Just saying. Don't take it TOO personally, Mr. B. ;-)
Posted by: Dave J at April 12, 2007 08:59 PM